IVY LEE | SIGNED LETTER TO FREDERICK GARDNER COTTRELL
1929. One-page TLS from the “founder of modern public relations” Ivy Lee to Cottrell, dated February 5, 1929, inquiring about further developments regarding a Mr. Figard. In Very Good condition. On “4 East 66th Street” letterhead. Faintly creased, with toning along edges. Rust marks from paperclip in top left corner. Signed in black ink by Lee: “Ivy Lee”. Shelved at DuPont Cottrell binder.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $200
NOTES
This piece comes from a large collection of letters to, from, and concerning Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a prominent American inventor and physical chemist. Best known for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator, a device which revolutionized emission-heavy industries, Cottrell rose to prominence for his endeavors to fund American scientific research through the establishment of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell was highly regarded by the other leading scientific minds of his age, a fact reflected in this collection of his letters with historic figures in research, academia, and American politics. Among these are Cottrell’s correspondences with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Nobel laureates William Ramsay (discoverer of the noble gases) and J. J. Thompson (discoverer of the electron), as well as exchanges with two American presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson.